Monty Python And The Holy Grail

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Monty Python ridicules (or satirizes) the institution of feudalism in the film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When King Arthur was walking with Patsy, King Arthur’s squire, a young man asks another man how he can tell if King Arthur is a king or not. The man replies saying it is obvious he is a king just by what King Arthur was wearing. This mocks the social classes by making it clear that in the Middle Ages, your status was determinable just by what you were wearing. King Arthur was wearing a robe and a crown, while everyone else in the village was wearing scraps of clothing sewed together. Also in this scene, in the background, you can see peasants crawling around looking for food. Again, this mocks the social classes because the wealthy ate delicious meals, while the poor would eat anything they could find. …show more content…

Throughout the movie, in random scenes, King Arthur would count “one, two, five.” Because of the lack of education back in the Middle Ages, the movie mocked how many people could not count correctly, even if they were just trying to count to three. Another scene that mocks the lack of education in the Middle Ages was the scene where King Arthur meets one of his soon to become knights. The knight wanted to find out a woman’s weight to determine if she was a witch or not by comparing her weight to that of a bird. Obviously, the woman was heavier compared to the bird, so she was declared a

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